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Dec 17, 2023

Blipblox After Dark 🧻🧻🧻🧻

On the base of this device its says ‘toy’. I’ll follow their lead, although I’ve owned non-toys less sophisticated than this. This is the third iteration made by Playtime Engineering…

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Dec 14, 2023September 21, 2024

U-He DIVA and HIVE 🧻🧻🧻

DIVA There was a time when DIVA was one of the few software synthesisers to sound like ‘the real thing’. In fact several of ‘the real things’ and furthermore ‘real…

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Oct 19, 2023December 5, 2023

AudioThing’s audio things 🧻🧻🧻🧻

Bit of a oddity due to renovations – currently living in an alternate space, reviewing things that make alternate spaces. With most of my equipment wrapped up in body bags…

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Sep 20, 2023October 19, 2023

Rob Papen eXplorer-8 🧻🧻

Thanks to Dean G for a temporary look at this suite. I was not keen to buy it, after a small amount of access I am even less keen. It…

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Aug 31, 2023June 3, 2024

‘logue SDK

If you have a minilogue XD, prologue or just the little NTS-1 you can run DSP code as oscillators or effects. The good thing is that anyone can create a…

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Aug 13, 2023April 24, 2025

Two odd machines as VSTs

The dominant word you hear in synthesis is ‘authentic’. Which is a damn shame when words like ‘beautiful’, ‘inspiring’, ‘unique’ are there for the taking. ‘Authentic’ is judgemental, analytical, it’s…

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Jul 11, 2023July 15, 2023

E-Mu Proteus 2000 🧻🧻🧻

Here comes the new bass same as the old bass. In the beginning was the 1981 Emulator which was cheaper than the Fairlight, but eventually too expensive against the AKAI.…

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Jul 6, 2023August 8, 2023

Izotope Iris 2 🧻🧻💩

File under Where Are They Today? I don’t actually remember there ever being an Iris 1, but I recall v2 coming out with much fanfare. It included a decent sample…

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May 10, 2023February 10, 2024

DS Audio Thorn 🧻🧻🧻🧻

I think that Thorn has not been a smash hit. It had accolades on first release in 2018 but has not been prominent since – the fate of many spectral…

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Mar 30, 2023April 4, 2023

Roland SH-4d 🧻🧻🧻🧻

Roland. Wake up.Huh? What time is it? Is it 1983 … 84? Where am I?You need to wake up. You’ve been asleep for a long time. Everything has changed. WAKE…

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